Jin Qiang

At 26,078 gross tons, Jin Qiang is the 22,222nd largest of the 84,014 vessels in this registry that report a tonnage. The median across that set is 5,994 GT, so this hull is about 4.4 times the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.

Among the 6,890 bulk carriers held here, it ranks 4,081st by tonnage — larger than 37% of that group. Their median tonnage is 32,837 GT, and the largest tenth begin at 85,849 GT. The flag most often flown by this group is Panama (1,548 ships). The yard that appears most often against it is Oshima Shipbuilding, with 337 hulls on record.

Panama is the country of registry for 9,598 vessels in this directory, of which Jin Qiang is the 3,686th largest by tonnage. The most common class under that flag is vessels this registry holds no type classification for (5,698 ships), and the median vessel measures 18,203 GT. Browse every ship flagged Panama.

Narrowing to both dimensions at once, this registry holds 1,548 bulk carriers flying the Panama flag, of which 951 are larger by tonnage.

Jin Qiang was built in 1998, making it 28 years old. It is one of 1,367 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 7,381 GT; within it this ship is the 317th largest. Across the whole of the 1990s the registry holds 12,006 vessels, median 4,956 GT. The median build year across the entire registry is 1995.

The registry attributes 753 vessels to Oshima Shipbuilding, with a median tonnage of 31,871 GT, delivered between 1970 and 2024. See the rest of that yard’s output.

At 185.0 m overall, Jin Qiang is 5.0 m shorter than the 190.0 m median for bulk carriers on record.

IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 9154579 this registry holds 50 other vessels, whose median build year is 1997 and which range from 1996 to 2001. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series.